Conventional methods for rAAV purification that are based vector that is more than 99% pure. More importantly, the on cesium chloride ultracentrifugation have often produced new purification procedures consistently produce rAAV vector preparations of variable quality and resulted in sigstocks with particle-to-infectivity ratios of less than 100, nificant loss of particle infectivity. We report here several which is significantly better than conventional methods. novel purification strategies that involve the use of non-The new protocol increases the overall yield of infectious ionic iodixanol gradients followed by ion exchange or heprAAV by at least 10-fold and allows for the complete purifiarin affinity chromatography by either conventional or cation of rAAV in 1 working day. Several of these methods HPLC columns. These methods result in more than 50%should also be useful for large-scale production. recovery of rAAV from a crude lysate and routinely produce